Snakely Speaking

[Stefan-A]

Dead language, new rules were invented while it was dead. No correct pronunciation, except if you specify which set of rules it's supposed to be correct under.

[kibakiba]

I pronounce it can-ess-ens... Sounds better to me.

[ConcinusMan]

I think that's pretty much how the audio file says it.

[ProXimuS]

Yea, that's what I was saying also, because of normal English rules, but I wasn't sure with the possible Latin rules...But I guess there are no rules.....I think "kaneskens" sounds cooler though....

Edit: Oh yea, Thanks

[ConcinusMan]

I've said before there are no rules (since it is a dead language and theres nobody left alive that knows how it should be spoken) but Stefan corrected me and said the pronunciations should follow the "new rules of Latin" whatever that means.

Indeed, the pronunciation I linked to is for English, even though it's not a native English word. who knows how it was pronounced originally.

Many native American languages are suffering a similar fate. Particularly coastal Northwestern languages. There's nobody left alive that knows how to speak them, and even worse, the people themselves are extinct, or nearly so.

Entire cultures gone before we could even know what they were all about.

[Stefan-A]

I've said before there are no rules (since it is a dead language and theres nobody left alive that knows how it should be spoken) but Stefan corrected me and said the pronunciations should follow the "new rules of Latin" whatever that means.

The rules of New Latin.
New Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As opposed to, for example, Classical Latin.
Classical Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Or Late Latin.
Late Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Or Medieval Latin.
Medieval Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Or Renaissance Latin.
Renaissance Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia